TO ALL LATCHKEY ORPHANS: CREATIVE WRITING PROMPT:

WHY ARE MILLENNIALS AT HIGHEST RISK FOR ISIL SUPPORT, AND BECOMING JIHADISTS' WAR BRIDES?

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PATRIOTISM, JINGOISM AND CHAUVINISM SEEM TO BE DIFFICULT FOR BOTH YOUNGER AND OLDER GENERATIONS TO DISCERN. NOW, THERE IS A GENERATIONAL SHIFT TOWARDS MILLENNIAL VALUES. THAT GENERATION VALUES "CAUTIOUS PATRIOTISM," AND ARE CYNICAL ABOUT WHAT THEY VIEW AS A CORRUPTION OF THE U.S. CONSTITUTION. THEY DON'T TRUST THAT ANOTHER VIETNAM DRAFT CAN BE PREVENTED.

FOR THOSE OF US WHO AREN'T LAYING DOWN IN THE STREETS, FOR THE OCCUPY, ANTI-FRACKING, PRO-GUN CONTROL AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS PROTESTS, IT SEEMS AS IF THESE PEACE ACTIVISTS ARE FIGHTING AGAINST NATIONAL PRIDE. FOR GENERATION X, THE FEAR OF ANOTHER L.A. RIOTS AND 9/11 CAN BRING MIXED FEELINGS, UNDERSTANDABLY.

THE PEACE ACTIVISTS SPEAK OF ELITISM, AND DON'T TRUST THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, AND U.S. MILITARY. THEY, ALONG WITH THEIR COUNTERPARTS MAY SEEM THREATENING, OR MILITANT IN THEIR BELIEFS. COMING FROM VA AND D.C. METRO, I FELT THAT SAME WAY, BECAUSE I WAS FROM A CULTURE TRAINED TO BELIEVE THAT POODLE SKIRTS FOR PLAYS, COUNTRY MUSIC, SQUARE DANCING, CHURCH, ALONG WITH BIBLE STUDY WAS ALSO NORMAL. WHY ARE MILLENNIALS AT HIGHEST RISK FOR ISIL RECRUITING?

IF SECOND-GENERATION REFUGEES ARE MORE AT-RISK FOR THE ISIL RECRUITERS, IT'S FROM A REBELLION TOWARDS CHRISTIAN/ORTHODOX RELIGIOUS VALUES THAT ARE OPPRESSIVE TOWARDS ALL WOMEN, AND GLBT ALSO. ONCE WE ADMIT TO THAT, WE CAN SOLVE THE CRISIS OF FEMALE, JIHADISTS' WAR BRIDES. I THINK THESE ISIL JIHADIST, WAR BRIDE FEMALES ARE NOT CONSIDERED SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE, SO THEY LOOK EXTERNALLY FOR A PLACE WHERE THEY CAN FIND SISTERHOOD, NOT JUST SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE. THAT PLACE ISN'T AT A ROCK THE VOTE RALLY, OR A PTA MEETING, WHERE THEY EXPERIENCE ELITISM, EXCLUSION TOWARDS GLBT, AND RACISM.

THEY TEND TO ONLY TRUST THEIR PEERS, ESPECIALLY ONLINE, MUCH MORE THAN GENERATION X. IF THEIR PEERS MENTION THAT CERTAIN PLACES ARE THE SAFEST FOR THEM TO SOCIALIZE WITH ONE ANOTHER/"RAVE", THEY BECOME VULNERABLE TO BEING PREYED UPON BY THEIR OWN PEER GROUP, AS THEY HAVE NO FAMILY. THEY ARE THE LATCHKEY ORPHAN GENERATION, WITHOUT ANY STRONG MOTHERS OR FATHERS.